Author: Dick Mangrum

This evening’s meeting of the committees of Walhalla City Council will take place at an alternate location.  The meeting will be held at the Depot on S. College Street and will start at 5:30 pm.

The world pandemic and the need to social distance create not the best atmosphere for hooking up–let along the major step of matrimony.  And COVID-19 appears to be having an effect on the numbers of couples who are starting the marriage process at the Oconee County Probate Judge’s office.  Judge Kenny Johns today counted 80 marriage permits issued from March […]

A three-vehicle crash this morning on I-85 in Oconee County left the northbound lanes blocked temporarily but resulted in no injuries to those involved.  Chief Larry Wilkerson of the responding Fair Play Fire Department said the van driver was especially lucky.  His vehicle struck a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck with a utility bed and sustained heavy front end damage […]

Emergency Services personnel from Oconee grabbed biscuit and a coffee and then it was off for a second day to help North Carolina authorities search for a missing person at Whitewater Falls.  Public safety responders searched the North Carolina side of the falls last night for a person who, it’s believed, fell into the water.

Retail customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative can look forward to checks in the mail to cover their pro-rata share of the settlement of a lawsuit which named Blue Ridge’s wholesale supplier a co-defendant. According to a court-authorized notice that has gone out in the form of letters to Blue Ridge customers, customers who are due checks don’t have […]

FEMA–the Federal Emergency Management Agency–is now accepting applications from Seneca and Oconee County residents whose properties sustained damage from the April EF3 tornado.  There are three ways to make application.  Call 800/621-3362. (Those who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability and use a TTY may call 800/462-7585.  Language translators are available.) Online by logging onto DisasterAssistance.gov.  […]

Westminster officials have been notified by the mayor that the controversial cabin no longer sits on city property. The placement by Mayor Ramey of a personal cabin on city property along the Chauga River has been a sore point with city council members. According to one councilman, the mayor sent a communication announcing the cabin has been moved and a […]

As many as 400 customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative are reported without service as the result of the early morning storm that passed through the upstate.  During the thunder and lightning storm, fire fighters rushed to at least three homes where lightning strikes were reported:  Strawberry Farm Road near Seneca, Deer Ranch Road near the Oconee Regional Airport, […]

Starting today, Prisma Health will allow one support person per patient undergoing outpatient procedures requiring anesthesia or moderate/deep sedation, such as surgery, endoscopy and radiology. The change in policy applies to all Prisma Health hospitals and facilities where outpatient procedures are performed. Due to COVID-19 precautions, Prisma Health’s restricted visitor policy will remain in effect, and visitors will not be […]